ranch hand, babies move feel think early on the womb. I know woman who was lied
to by an abortion doctor saying it was just cells, after she saw pictures and
videos of babies at all stages of development in the womb she nearly committed
suicide. i think if more woman were required to see this info before, abortion
rates would drop. Are people so selfish they can't be pregnant for 9 month
out of there life and give the baby to a couple who desperately wants to have
children but can't?. The only cases of abortion that should be considered
are rape incest mothers life in danger. Otherwise, you don't want kids have
your tubes tide.

Free birth control led to greatly lower rates of abortions and births to
teenagers, a large study concludes. The two-year project tracked more than
9,000 women in St. Louis, many of them poor or uninsured, who were given their
choice of a range of free contraceptives. These women experienced far fewer
unintended pregnancies as a result, reported Dr. Jeffrey Peipert of Washington
University in St. Louis in a study published Thursday. There were 6.3 births per
1,000 teenagers in the study, compared with a national rate of 34 births per
1,000 teens in 2010. There also were substantially lower rates of abortion, when
compared with women in the metro area and nationally: 4.4 to 7.5 abortions per
1,000 women in the study, compared with 13.4 to 17 abortions per 1,000 women in
the St. Louis region, Dr. Peipert calculated. The national rate is almost 20
abortions per 1,000 women. Women’s health specialists said the study
foreshadows the potential impact of the new health care law, in which millions
of women are beginning to get contraceptives without a co-payment.(NY
Times)

"This article gives a review of the main factors that are related to the low
abortion rate in the Netherlands. Attention is payed to figures on abortion and
the use of contraceptive methods since the beginning of the 1960s up to the end
of the 1980s. The introduction of modern contraceptives (mainly the pill and
contraceptive sterilization) was stimulated by a strong voluntary family
planning movement, fear for overpopulation, a positive role of GPs, and the
public health insurance system. A reduction of unwanted pregnancies has been
accomplished through successful strategies for the prevention of teenage
pregnancy (including sex education, open discussions on sexuality in mass media,
educational campaigns and low barrier services) as well as through wide
acceptance of sterilization. The Dutch experience with family planning shows the
following characteristics: a strong wish to reduce reliance on abortion, ongoing
sexual and contraceptive education related to the actual experiences of the
target groups, and low barrier family planning services."("Contraception in the Netherlands: the low abortion rate explained"
NIH)

To "Truthseeker", reductions in the number of children killed through
abortion is laudable but has nothing to do with the argument about the ethics of
those who are killed.

To "Ranch Hand", simply stating that
humans at some stage of their development aren't people (yet) is no more
meaningful than saying that people of African descent are only 3/5ths human, and
it is done for the same reason of conveniently disregarding that human because
you want to feel free to kill/enslave them.

The fact that you, I and
everyone else can walk around, meet and greet other people and even write
responses to articles in the D-news doesn't alter the indisputable fact
that we all are, ultimately and essentially, simply a much larger cluster of
cells than we were soon after our conception and even birth. And the process
that brought us **all** to where we are now and wherever we will be in the
future started with that conception.

Except for some very rare cases,
the only difference between us and the millions of others killed before they
were born is time and someone's greater love of life.

Re: "Not one person who voted in this poll was aborted. They should be
thankful for that."

Why should they be thankful for it?

Ecclesiastes 4:

"So I again considered all the oppression that
continually occurs on earth.This is what I saw:The oppressed were in
tears, but no one was comforting them;no one delivers them from the power
of their oppressors.So I considered those who are dead and gonemore
fortunate than those who are still alive.But better than both is the one
who has not been bornand has not seen the evil things that are done on
earth."

People ought to consider what they're doing. I
don't understand how anyone who stopped to think for a moment could want to
subject even more people to this world of pain and suffering. Haven't
enough suffered already?

If you're against abortion, don't
have one. Let other people make their own decisions.

@trekker"Are people so selfish they can't be pregnant for 9 month
out of there life and give the baby to a couple who desperately wants to have
children but can't?."

You make it sound as if pregnancy is
so easy... I take it you're a guy (incidentally I am too, but I'm not
going to think pregnancy is some walk in the park). By the way, there's
plenty of children at adoption centers already, the couples who can't have
kids already has options. Or is it like with animals? People go to animal
shelters and always want a kitten or puppy rather than an older animal, does
that apply to babies/children too?

As someone who would like to see abortion reduced in frequency, I support the
things that work across the work like universal coverage of birth control, and
comprehensive sex education. The fastest way to reduce abortions is to reduce
unplanned pregnancies. (Yes, abstinence is most effective but it's nice to
have a backup plan when that inevitably doesn't get selected by a large
portion of the population).

@ trekker: About 650 women die every year from pregnancy related complications.
True, that is not a high number - unless you are the family of one of those
women. The choice to carry a baby to term is not just about being
"selfish" or "unselfish."

You state that you support
abortion in cases where the mother's life is in danger. Many of the new
abortion laws that are being passed prohibit abortions after 20 weeks - which is
often before it can be determined if the mother's life is in danger.

How do you feel about abortions in circumstances where there is a fatal
fetal defect or a severe birth defect?

@ rational: You want to force
women to carry a pregnancy to term and you think Ranchhand is the women treating
women like cows?

It's interesting that the government condemns murder and made laws against
it. Then the left wing flaps in and wants to legalize some forms of murder. They
call it "womens rights" or "womens issues" or justify it by
saying "it's their body".

All of these labels stir deep
emotions and makes one feel like that they should support such a cause.

Let's look at the issues. Two consenting adults engage in a behavior. A
child is created. Now they strip the father of his rights, by calling it womens
rights. And gives the woman the ability to destroy a human life, because
it's her choice and her body. How would you feel if your life could be
terminated soo quickly because your mother decided after the fact that she and
the father shouldn't have engaged in such activities?

I just
don't understand how the left wing people can condone murdering children.
They jump up and down during war time and scream for the children. But why not
unborn children?

Re: "They call it 'womens rights' or 'womens issues' or
justify it by saying 'it's their body.'"

It is
their body. The woman is not just a "host." The fetus is not more
important than the woman. It is a part of her body, and she should have the
final say. Not the man. Not the government. Not the church. Not the mob.

"Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and
cast them from thee ... And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it
from thee ..."

Re: "How would you feel if your life could be
terminated soo quickly because your mother decided after the fact that she and
the father shouldn't have engaged in such activities?"

I
wouldn't "feel" at all because I wouldn't know, and I'd
be no worse off than I was before conception. On the other hand, if there's
an afterlife, and if I already had a soul, according to Mormon doctrine I would
go straight to the Celestial Kingdom, and I would know and "feel"
thankful that the woman had spared me the pain and suffering of this earth.